Atusji New Enchanting Double Single "Cloudstrife/ LAZY2020"

ATUSJI is the solo-project of Terkel Atsushi Røjle (Girls' Night Out, Virgin Suicide). His experiences both personal and professional are clearly reflected in the music - a warped and fresh take on the singer/songwriter-tradition, made modern in its fusion of Soundcloud-rap and music from the alternative hitlists of the early 00's, when ATUSJI was at the start of his teens.

His first release is the double single CLOUDSTRIFE/LAZY2020.

"It's been important for me to open up in these songs and to tell what's really going on in my head these days," says Terkel Atsushi Røjle. ONCLOUDSTRIFE: "Cloudstrife is about giving up. It's about being so depressed that you can't see any solution to it, and finding an unsustainable, but odd euphoria in giving up completely."

ON LAZY2020: "Lazy2020 was inspired by my dad saying that he will move from Japan and back to Denmark to live with my mum after the Olympic Games in 2020. It got me thinking about what I wanted to do by 2020, and I was totally blank. I have no plan, and the track grew from that to a song about being lazy with precious things - with love."

On the production side, ATUSJI experiments with form. Taking a cue from hip-hop mixtapes, short and long tracks with varied soundscapes are put side-by-side. Synth stabs and pianos are re-amped and distorted; vocals stretched and pitched; guitars and voice taking turns to be right in the room with the listener, or peeking over the horizon. The result is a wild blend of lo- fi and hi-fi. All of this is set to lyrics that feel like part diary, part group therapy, taking its aesthetic cues from solo artists from Elliott Smith to Joji.